Hi,
As a kind of "by product" of my latest build of PBN-1 Nomad I took out from my shelves very old model of Catalina Mk I, which I did some 45 years ago (!) as one of my very early scratch conversion using Airfix PBY-5A model...This was done as machine from 209 Squadron, WQ-Z, the one which spotted Bismarck on 26 May 1941.
So I restored it. I was not able to correct all flaws of my old build and of Airfix Catalina itself, but I have modified main canopy adding glasses, made smaller side windows, replaced blisters by those provided by Squadron (vacu), I added self made resin copies of beach wheels by Academy, add details of retractable side floats mechanism, sanded down a bit rivets etc ...
Now she looks this way:
And together with Nomad (Broplan conversion of Academy kit)
For comparison a photo of my original build (unfortunatelly when I already started to work on)
The 45 years ago I followed the profile presented in book "Bombers 1939-1945" issued by Blandford ( https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/bombers-1939-45-patrol-and-transport-aircraft/author/kenneth-munson/ ). The serial presented there was W8406 and now it is known that should be AH 545
Comments welcome
Regards
Jerzy-Wojtek